A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

Sometimes we forego things not because we do not want them but because we can't afford to raise them at the moment

Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.

Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.

You are truly Satan's sequined spawn.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.

The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!

Build a little community of those you love and who love you

As a leader, it is often better to ask the right questions and listen than to have all the answers.

Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.